I wish there was a way for me to put into words how amazing everyday is. There just aren't words. It's surreal. Sublime. Euphoric. It's like a fairy tale. A dream. Cloud number nine if you will. Someone told me that once you start travelling "it's so easy to forget all of this" (sitting in Canada). It's so true. Traffic, gossip, stress, tv, hollywood, rushing around, the rat-race in general is like a memory that only comes to mind wh...

So this past weekend was a long weekend for me, I had friday and monday off. On saturday morning I got up at 4am to get into Petoria to catch a bus to Hazyview, about 6 hours away. It is right outside of the southern area of Kruger National Park. It is one of the most famous Game Parks in the world (a "safari" if you will). Very popular since it has the Big 5. The Big 5 are lion, buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhyno. From sat-monday I stayed at a backpa...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A KLIPKOP VOLUNTEER Here's an idea of what it's like to volunteer here at Klipkop Conservancy. We are suppose to be ready for 8:30 am mon-fri. This never happens and it usually between 8:30-9:30 before we're heading out for the morning's tasks. We work until noon. The work varies from soil erosion work, fence maintenance, game couints, water management and testing, work shops etc. The past 2 days (not counting today as it is ...

So Emily, Mando and I went on a tour of Johannesburg and Soweto today, and then finished off the day with a trip to the Apartheid museum. The tour of Johannesburg was neat and I was glad to see it because I would never go there on my own as it is dangerous...you get robbed blind there. You go in with car and money and come out without car, valuables and shoes. No joke. We went through some of the poor areas that gives the city its bad name...very cool, you litera...

Well, I'm really enjoying my stay thus far here in South Africa. The routine here at the reserve is good, not too hard, but enough to keep you busy and pooped at the end of the day. By 8:30 am we are up and ready for work (usually hahah, but not really, 9 am kicks around and we're usually still getting our asses in grear....).8:30-4pm we do work on the reserve with a one hr lunch break. Sometimes we do workshops instead of work (for example today we did o...